USA University - Feeding a Dangerous Fiction, Redux

The news is that UCOP has legitimated the conventional wisdom that there's a crisis of free speech on campus by funding a center to stud...

USA University - BFA Editorial on Free Speech and the University

In the aftermath of the failure of Milofest, the Berkeley Faculty Association has written an op-ed that raises important questions about the...

USA University - Saved by the Public: Central European University as Portent

Central European University may have been saved from closure this month by the crowds that went into the streets to defend it . The threat ...

USA University - Higher Education after the Inauguration

The month since the inauguration has made it crystal clear that universities and colleges are going to face a wide range of challenges and a...

USA University - Dissent at Berkeley

The turmoil surrounding Milo Yiannopoulos's visit to Berkeley has garnered national attention.  Despite the reality that UC Berkeley as ...

USA University - Academic Freedom Again

As you have probably seen, George Ciccariello-Maher, a political scientist at Drexel University has come under fire for tweeting "all ...

USA University - After the Election

President-elect Trump did not spend much time on the question of higher education (unlike Bernie Sanders or even Hillary Clinton) during his...

USA University - A Global Crisis of Faculty Faith? Two Berkeley Examples

I've always believed that university professors are willing and able to govern academics, but now I am not so sure.  I am worried about ...

USA University - Two Faculty Letters to UC President & Chancellors on AAA / BDS Controversy

We post two faculty responses to the letter that the University of California's president--in the company of all ten campus chancellors...